Heavy metal and hard rock played quite a part in the latest season of the Netflix hit “Stranger Things.” Character Eddie Munson (played by Joseph Quinn) wears a denim jacket that was owned by metal icon Ronnie James Dio, shreds Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” in the season finale, and he also said he listened to a ton of metal to get into the role. He wasn’t the only one.
Actor Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays season four’s demonic bad guy Vecna, told the “Kyle Meredith With …” podcast that he listened to a lot of Sunn O))) and Darkthrone to get into the darkness of the role. “When I was prepping for Vecna, to get into Vecna, I would use a lot of bands like Sunn O))), Carpathian Forest, Darkthrone, Mayhem. A lot of black metal kind of stuff that I just really latched onto and thought, ‘Wow, this is great.’ There’s also something about the sensitivity in the way black metal is made and their belief system which I really f*cking vibe with.”
Bower has also been heavily involved with music himself having previously released an album, a pair of singles, and he also fronted the band Counterfeit. Last week, Bower released a new dark and folky rock song, “I Am.” “The ‘I Am’ music video finds Jamie playing two alternate roles — a preacher at the pulpit, delivering an impassioned liturgy, and a wayward congregant who stumbles into the chapel,” reads a description of the song. “Jamie’s preacher self is in the midst of an earnest chant, which includes the lyrics ‘I’m the angel / I’m the devil / And I’m coming inside.’ At the very end of the video, both of Jamie’s selves meet together in the aisle of the church. It’s a haunting display of being confronted by your innerself.”
“Stranger Things” premiered on Netflix in 2016, and the series earned widespread critical and audience acclaim. Set in the 1980s in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, the show was created by the Duffer Brothers and sports a cast including Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown, among many others. Pop culture references to the ’80s have made the series a hit for fans of nostalgia while also attracting a widespread new audience of all ages. The latest season of the show also featured a re-mixed version of Journey’s heaviest song, “Separate Ways.”
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